Kangna Ranaut Quotes

Did any agents ever put Diane Ladd up for some of the great parts, even though she always got great reviews? No! But do they put up the girlfriend of the studio executive who's gonna do them a favor later? You betcha.

Hollywood is sexist and age-ist, and that covers all the bases, I guess.

Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But that's the way it is.

I feel like women are asked their age more than men.

We are still uneasy with women and power…For a man to be ruthless, he has to be like Joe McCarthy. For a woman, she just has to put somebody on hold.

It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion.

The more powerful you become, some people especially don't like it that you're a woman. I stick up for myself.

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.

Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.

We often hear of a male director directing a great indie and immediately being offered the next huge comic book movie. Rarely, if ever, does this happen to a woman.

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

When women are in positions of power it's a hard place to be, especially when that position involves bossing men around.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

You think once you've shown what you can do, and your movies have been successful, that snap, you work. So to discover the difference between guys' roles and girls' roles made me plain mad. It's unjust.

Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

Hollywood can be hard on women, but it did not cause my problems.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.

If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?

Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress.

When women are angry at men, they call them heartless. When men are angry at women, they call them crazy. Sometimes it doesn't stop there.

The sexism in Hollywood is not particularly overt - because the system is good at hiding it.

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.